Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Norway and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Reagan Youth to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soul II Soul,
The Red Krayola,
Q65,
a-ha,
Supertramp,
Fear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Newcleus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grauzone,
Gong,
Cameo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DNA,
Television,
Barrington Levy,
The American Breed,
Los Fastidios,
Vladislav Delay,
Sarah Menescal,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Pop Group,
John Foxx,
Zapp,
Second Layer,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Coltrane,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bizarre Inc.,
Goldenarms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Be Bop Deluxe,
MDC,
Essential Logic,
Quantec,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Offenders,
Porter Ricks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Normal,
The Martian,
The Techniques,
X-102,
The Blackbyrds,
Nik Kershaw,
Bill Near,
Unrelated Segments,
Michelle Simonal,
Soft Cell,
Moss Icon,
Wolf Eyes,
Angry Samoans,
Tommy Roe,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Freddie Wadling,
The Beau Brummels,
Duran Duran,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Knickerbockers,
Niagra,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.